Multiple cup-mold.



No. 833,047. PATENTED OCT. 9, 1906. G. G. GUERNSEY.

MULTIPLE CUP MOLD.

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0. G. GUERNSEY.

MULTIPLE CUP LD.

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CHARLES C. GUERNSEY, OF JERSEY OITY, NEW

JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO NATIONAL GLASS AND BOTTLE COMPANY, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW

JERSEY.

MULTIPLE CUP-MOLD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 9, 1906.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES C. GUERN- SEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Multiple Cup-Molds, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a multiple cup-mold designed for use in manufacturing glass stoppers of every form and kind and also glass balls and other articles, and embodies improved means whereby the same mold maybe used for producing articles of different shape by being provided with removable cups or dies and being arranged as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

For a full description of the invention and the merits thereof and also to, acquire a knowledge of the details of construction of the means for effecting the result reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a transverse section of my improved press-mold, the parts being shown in their assembled relation. Fig. 2 is aplan view thereof. Figs. 3 and 4 are detail views illustrating the bottom and top sections of the mold, respectively. Figs. 5 and 6 are similar views illustrating the different portions of the dies.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

Referring to the drawings, the referencenumeral 1 indicates the bottom section of my improved mold, which is in the present instance circular in shape and is provided at opposite sides with handles 2, by which it may be carried from place to place and adjusted to its proper position. The bottom section 1 contains a circular series of pockets 3, eight of these pockets being embodied in a section in the present instance. The pockets 3 are designed to contain the female portions 4 of the dies, which for the purposes of illustration are here shown as shaped to produce halves of hollow stoppers. The female portions 4 of the dies may be secured detachably in the pockets in any desired manner, bottom screws 5 being here shown for thatpurpose, and this detachable feature of the dies is an important element of my invention, as it will be seen that any form of die may be conveniently removed and others substituted without the necessity of destroying the entire press-mold.

6 designates the top section of the mold,

which is also circular in shape and provided T with handles 7, so that it may be readily placed upon the bottom section 1. The top section 6 is also provided with a circular se ries of pockets 8, corresponding in number and location to the pockets 3, and the male portions 9 of the dies are'detachably secured in said pockets by means of screws 10 or the like and provided on their outermost faces with the proper configuration in cameo, as shown at 11, designed to mate with the female portions 4 of the dies.

It is to be understood that the top section6 of the mold is set upon the bottom section 1,

and for the purpose of securing a proper jointthe corresponding outer edges of the two sections are recessed, as shown at 12. The upper surface of the top section 6 and the lower surface of the bottom section 1 are preferably beveled, as shown at 6 and 1 to secure the proper fit with the clamping-frame 13. This frame is made in two semicircular sections 14, hinged together at one end, as shown at 15, to swing toward and from each other in a horizontal plane and to clamp around the superposed sections 1 and 6 of the mold so as to securely bind the two sections together. Any preferred means of holding the two portions of the clamping-frame together at their free ends may be employed, and the said frame is preferably provided with handles 16, by

which it may be opened and closed. Both the bottom section 1 of the mold and the top section 6 are provided with central openings registering with each other when the parts are placed together and designed to receive the crucible or receptacle 17 for the molten glass. When the molten glass is poured into the receptacle 17, it passes outwardly through the radial gates 18 into the dies, being forced in this direction by means of a plunger 19, operated in any desired manner, and thus fill the dies to secure the desired result. The plunger is then withdrawn and the clampingframe 14 opened by means of the handles 16, the top section is removed, and the stoppers or similar articles of glass taken from the bottom section 1 of the mold.

It will be seen that my invention provides means whereby the same press-mold mechanism may be used for producing glass'articles of varying designs and that when any of the dies become worn it is only necessary to remove them from their supporting-section and replace them by a fresh die without necessitating destroying the entire mold. By this means important economies in the art are effected, as will be readily understood.

Having thus described the invention, What is claimed as new is A multiple cup-mold comprising a bottom mold-section and a top mold-section each of which is provided with a plurality of pockets, die members detachably secured in the pockets of the respective sections, the latter being provided with corresponding recessed meeting edges, and with opposite beveled edges, and both provided With a central opening for the reception of the molten material, gates being provided for the passage of the molten material from the said central openings into the dies, a hinged clamping-frame designed to embrace the beveled edges of said two sections to clamp the same together, and a plun ger designed to be inserted in the said receptacle and arranged to force the molten material through the gates into the dies.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES 0. GUERNSEY. [1,. s] Witnesses:

FRANCES L. HOUGHTALING, WILLIAM C. RAPPE. 

